Climate variability of the Great Barrier Reef in relation to the tropical Pacific and El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-47

  Redondo Rodriguez, Ana ^a   Weeks, Scarla J ^a   Berkelmans, Ray ^b   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a   Lough, Janice M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ENSO; Great Barrier Reef; La Ni a; Modoki; SST; tropical Pacific

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; PARADIGM SHIFT; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

NIA;

EID: 84855570566     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF11151     Document Type: Article

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